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Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
Filed: 4/1/2008
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3642
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3642 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by |
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| changing Section 1-2.2-20 as follows:
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| (65 ILCS 5/1-2.2-20)
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| Sec. 1-2.2-20. Instituting code hearing proceedings. When |
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| a police
officer or other individual
authorized to issue a code |
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| violation finds a code violation to exist, he or
she
shall note |
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| the violation on a
multiple copy violation notice and report |
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| form that indicates (i) the name and
address
of the defendant, |
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| (ii) the
type and nature of the violation, (iii) the date and |
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| time the violation was
observed,
and (iv) the names of
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| witnesses to the violation.
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| The violation report form shall be forwarded to the code |
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| hearing department
where a docket
number shall be stamped on |
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| all copies of the report and a hearing date shall be
noted
in |
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| the blank spaces
provided for that purpose on the form. The |
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| hearing date shall not be less than
30 nor more than 40
days |
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| after the violation is reported.
However, if the code violation |
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| involves a municipal ordinance regulating truants, the hearing |
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| date shall not be less than 7 nor more than 40 days after the |
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| violation is reported.
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| One copy of the violation report form shall be maintained |
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| in the files of the
code hearing
department and shall be part |
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| of the record of hearing, one copy of the report
form shall be |
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| returned to
the individual representing the municipality in the |
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| case so that he or she may
prepare evidence of the code
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| violation for presentation at the hearing on the date |
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| indicated, and one copy
of the report form shall be
served by |
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| first class mail to the defendant along with a summons |
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| commanding
the defendant to appear
at the hearing.
In |
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| municipalities with a population under 3,000,000, if the |
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| violation report form requires the respondent to
answer within |
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| a certain amount of time, the
municipality must reply to the |
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| answer within the same amount of time
afforded to the
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| respondent.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-616, eff. 1-1-06.)".
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